Mercurial `hg clone` but ignoring all subrepos?

Question

Is there a way to clone a repo that comes with subrepos, but without having Mercurial pull all the subrepos?

It appears that while hg clone -U can be used t

Answer 1

This answer may add more than the question required, but provides some valuable notes on working with Mercurial when you can't update do to a bad subrepository path or revision.

Step 1: Clone the repository without any updates

hg clone --noupdate source_repository destination_repository

Step 2: Use revert to get the right files

hg revert --all --rev revision_number --exclude subrepo_1 --exclude subrepo_2 ...

At this point, you have a new changeset; you may need to make sure the parent revision is correct. When I did this, my new changeset's parent was changeset 0. To fix this I had to set the parent changeset AND switch branches (since my changeset was on a different branch).

Step 3: Change the parent of the current changes

hg debugsetparents revision_number
hg branch branch_name

That should do it.